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“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Every black person who spends time with a lot of white people eventually ends up being asked to speak for every black person and I hate that. It's really stupid. And everyone gets to respond to that idiocy however they want. But my anxiety eventually made me extremely careful about everything I said, because of course I don't represent capital-B Black People, but if people think I do, then I still feel a responsibility to try to do it well.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Sometimes our heroes don't make it to the end.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“It's always the quiet ones that are the most interesting”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean